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  • 9/11 in American Culture

    by Mary Weems, Henry A. Giroux, Douglas Kellner, Peter McLaren, Jack Z. Bratich, Arnold, Shepperson Tomaselli, Patricia Tacineto Clough, Michelle Fine, Joanne Robertson, Karen Staller, Greg Dimitriadis, Angharad N. Valdivia, Laurel Richardson, Heidi Marie Brush, Robert W. McChesney, Dierde Glenn Paul, Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg, Birgit Richard, Cameron McCarthy, Virginia Olesen, Cary Nelson, Kenneth J. Gergen, William L. Miller, Anton J. Kuzel, Mary Gergen, Kathy Charmaz, Davydd J. Greenwood, Shulamit Reinharz, Staceyann Chin, Lois Weis, Arthur P. Bochner, Carolyn Ellis, Ivan Brady, William G. Tierney, Gerardo R. Lopez, H.L Goodall Jr, Karen Scott-Hoy, Tracy K. Lewis, Patricia Geist Martin, James Joseph Scheurich, Dr. Christopher N. Poulos, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Stephen John Hartnett ...
    Series series Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
    In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays-by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others-are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad'

    by Stephen Norris, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.This KinoSputnik about Fedor Bondarchuk's megahit Stalingrad (2013) examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Andrei Tarkovsky: 'Ivan's Childhood'

    by Robert Efird, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing. This KinoSputnik on Andrei Tarkovsky's debut feature Ivan's Childhood examines the production, context and reception of the film, whilst offering a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sergei Paradjanov

    Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

    by Joshua First, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Released in 1965, Sergei Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a landmark of Soviet-era cinema – yet, because its emphasis on folklore and mysticism in traditional Carpathian Hutsul culture broke with Soviet realism, it caused Paradjanov to be blacklisted soon after its release.This book is the first full-length companion to the film. In addition to a synopsis of the plot and a close ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Aleksei Balabanov: 'Brother'

    by Ira Osterberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor, Julian Graffy, Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    KinoSputniks closely analyse some key films from the history of Russian and Soviet cinema. Written by international experts in the field, they are intended for film enthusiasts and students, combining scholarship with an accessible style of writing.Ira Österberg's KinoSputnik on Aleksei Balabanov's cult film Brother (1997) examines the production history, context and reception of the film, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Aleksandr Sokurov

    Russian Ark

    by Birgit Beumers, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Released in 2002, Russian Ark drew astonished praise for its technique: shot with a Steadicam in one ninety-six-minute take, it presented a dazzling whirl of movement as it followed the Marquis de Custine as he wandered through the vast Winter Palace in St. Petersburg – and through three hundred years of Russian history.This companion to Russian Ark addresses all key aspects of the film, beginning ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Aleksandr Askoldov

    The Commissar

    by Marat Grinberg, Birgit Beumers, Richard Taylor ...
    Series series KinoSputnik
    Filmed in 1966 and ’67, but kept from release for twenty years, The Commissar is unquestionably one of the most important and compelling films of the Soviet era. Based on a short story by Vasily Grossman, it tells of a female Red Army commissar who is forced to stay with a Jewish family near the frontlines of the battle between the Red and White Armies as she waits to give birth. The film drew the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Directory of World Cinema: East Europe

    Edited by Adam Bingham ...
    Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as an index. Given the prevalence of important new wave cinemas across Eastern Central Europe in the post ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Warped Mourning

    Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied

    by Alexander Etkind ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    "[A] superb study of Russian cultural memory makes all too clear, ghosts of the unburied dead affect literature, art, public life and mental health too." — The EconomistAfter Stalin's death in 1953, the Soviet Union dismantled the enormous system of terror and torture that he had created. But there has never been any Russian ban on former party functionaries, nor any external authority to dispense ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Performing Violence

    Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama

    by Birgit Beumers, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the consequent boom in drama and why this new breed of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Red Screen

    Politics, Society, Art in Soviet Cinema

    Edited by Anna Lawton ...
    This original collection of essays encompasses seventy years of Soviet cinema from the perspective of twenty academics of different backgrounds and nationalities. The book highlights significant moments in the history of Soviet cinema, providing a challenging montage of detailed `close-ups'. This gives the reader a clear understanding of the aesthetic developments and sociopolitical function of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Socialist Senses

    Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917–1940

    by Emma Widdis ...
    "Widdis's rich and fascinating book has opened a new perspective from which to think about the Soviet cinema." — KritikaThis major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the fundamental transformations in how film, through the senses, remade the Soviet self in the 1920s and 1930s.Following the Russian Revolution, there was a shared ambition for a 'sensory ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus